3. Installing and Configuring Spring Insight

3.1 Installing Spring Insight

There are two ways to install Spring Insight:

Install the Developer Edition of tc Server and start using the
spring-insight-instance that is already configured
with Spring Insight. You can also create a new tc Runtime instance by
specifying this instance as a template.

Download Spring Insight as a standalone template (
springsource-insight-tc-server-developer-edition-version.zip
) and install it into any existing 2.X tc Server installation, as described in the rest of this section. The standalone bundle always includes the latest version of Spring Insight.

The bundle installs as a tc Runtime template. You can install many versions of Spring Insight in tc Server this way; all the versions will reside under the CATALINA_BASE/templates directory of your tc Server installation.. You then choose which Insight version you want to apply when you create a tc Runtime instance with the tcruntime-instance.sh script.

Note

The following instructions are written for Unix users; Windows
users should change forward-slashes to back-slashes and use
*.bat command scripts rather than
*.sh.

To install the Spring Insight template bundle into an existing tc Server installation and create a new tc Runtime instance that uses the template :

In the preceding example, the script creates a tc Runtime
instance called insightPlay using the template
springsource-insight-tc-server-developer-1.0.0-RELEASE,
which automatically configures Spring Insight for the instance.

Start the instance using the tcruntime-ctl.sh
script:

prompt$ ./tcruntime-ctl.sh insightPlay start

Access the Spring Insight dashboard in your browser:

http://host:8080/insight

where host refers to the
computer on which you are running the tc Runtime instance. If on the
same computer as your browser, you can use
localhost: